Hilda Leesmann
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Hilda Leesmann, was an Estonian ballet student and an accomplished classical pianist who in 1915 married Alfred Rosenberg, the later leading German National Socialist ("Nazi") ideologist and politician.
She developed tuberculosis, as a result of the horrible privations attendant upon the war in Eastern Europe and during the Bolshevik Revolution. She went to Switzerland in 1918. Alfred Rosenberg and she did not see each other again, and in 1923 he allowed her to divorce him.
Her birth date is unknown as is her date of death, but the cause was presumably from tuberculosis given her infection.
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